Multi Skilled Engineer in City of London

12-month contract, 37.5/hrs week

On-site White City 8:30am-5pm £23/hr

About our Client:

Our client is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation, programmed T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Using a broad suite of proprietary and modular T cell programming technologies, the company is engineering precisely targeted, controlled and highly active T cell therapies that are designed to better recognize cancer cells, break down their defense mechanisms and eliminate these cells.

Role Summary:

The Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for maintaining specialist laboratory, analytical equipment, and facility installations to support our Research & Development, Process Development and Translational team at MediaWorks. The engineer will be primarily responsible for equipment breakdown repairs & ongoing maintenance work of laboratory & analytical equipment and associated utility systems. The engineer will help develop engineering processes and systems including asset management, maintenance, and continuous improvement. They will plan and complete a range of reactive & planned maintenance works associated within the lab as well as supporting assessment, identification, ordering and maintaining critical spares. To ensure ongoing compliance with all EHS, quality and statutory regulations and best practices. They will work closely with Lab Operations, Facilities and Scientific Groups at MediaWorks to maximise equipment uptime and support the organisation's critical activities at MediaWorks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complete a daily health check of laboratory equipment and monitoring systems and ensure non-compliances are reported and dealt with in a timely manner.
• Provide first fix responding, diagnostics repair & improving equipment at MediaWorks, and hand back the equipment in a safe, reliable, and compliant state.
• Respond to CAPA actions to ensure timely close out of all Quality issues associated with Engineering and Facilities.
• Support equipment validation as needed.
• Support control and monitoring systems.
• Deliver improvement projects related to control and instrumentation as needed.
• Act as main point of contact on assigned external service providers and manage their deliverables on behalf of the engineering team.
• Maintain the asset care plan up to date, and ensure suppliers and contractors are booked in advance to attend site to maintain, calibrate, and repair equipment.
• Manage contractors on site, monitor, manage and review activities and subsequent paperwork and reports and archive accordingly into the engineering library.
• Plan and undertake scheduled maintenance.
• Use manuals and failure history to develop preventative tasks.
• Maintain and record reactive and planned maintenance records on to the CMMS and engineering library.
• Provide operator training as necessary.
• Provide liaison with Media Works engineering & building management team to ensure activities are performed effectively & safely and to address equipment and facility issues that impact operations at MediaWorks.
• Own, manage and admin assigned engineering systems as needed.
• Provide engineering support for wider project activities within the teams.
• Provide in-house cleaning, calibration, and maintenance activities for equipment (e.g., flow cytometers, plate washers, incubators, fridges, freezers, pipettes, etc.).
• Support engineering team in implementation and maintenance and upkeep of CMMS system.
• Operate ERP system to raise requisition, deal with invoices when work is complete in a timely manner.
• Own identification, risk assessment and plan implementation of control measures surrounding hazardous tasks at MediaWorks related to laboratory activities.
• Own creation, implementation and training of emergency and on-call procedures to be followed on environmental monitoring systems & LN2 generation.
• Support identification and storage of required spares, consumables, and tools for activities in the laboratories.
• Manage stocks of critical engineering spares and equipment.
• Provide status and look ahead reports related to laboratories and equipment as needed.
• Write, review and update maintenance SOPs and one-point lessons for equipment and monitoring and utility systems.
• Work within the GLP requirements.
• Support site projects as assigned.
• Provide support to Facilities, lab operations and Capital Project Engineering as required.
• Other activities as assigned.

Demonstrated skills and competencies:

• E – Essential
• P – Preferred

Experience:

• Knowledge and expertise working with laboratory and analytical equipment in a GLP environment – P
• Ability to provide diagnostics and first fix capabilities on a range of equipment systems – E
• Ability to complete FMEA, create detailed SOPs and train end users on operations of daily upkeep of laboratory equipment – E
• CMMS experience – E
• Experience of managing and performing planned preventive maintenance – E
• Experience of completing in-house calibration on a wide range of instruments - P
• Computer literate – E
• Microsoft Excel - E
• Equipment validation lifecycle knowledge – P
• Document generation and review - E
• Knowledge of current standards, procedures, & controls for GxP facilities and equipment – P
• Pharmaceutical Utility systems knowledge – HVAC, Medical gases (CO2, O2, N2) etc. – P
• Experience in GLP standard quality management systems – P
• Project management experience – P
• Electrical, Instrumentation and Control system experience - P